Do You Ever "Get Smart" With Your Chickens?

[BellydancerNC]

I had an episode recently ... they figured out the could wiggle and crawl under the coop to escape into the woods >

... I was having to round them up several times a day for 3 days straight . Good thing for growth spurts they can't fit any more but it showed us we had a security issue that we got fixed ... by day 4 I would've been cussing my face off . It was cute though watching their little butts wiggle under , feet dangling .

 

[PepsNick]

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[stoutfamily]

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Love this!!

 

[andythescot]

Once while I was chasing the girls (for the 10 billionth time) I accidentally pushed a BO off their wall...
And when I'm trying to close up the coop for the night I might use a couple.. eh... creative names for this one RIR who just never stops croaking and clucking and boking and squawking!

 

[gryeyes]

Huh. I am thinking hard, here, but I think I speak with too much affection with my flock members. Oh, I might have called the Silver Sebright pair of roosters "Little Poops" ( using an entirely different word after " little") and sometimes I call Frick and Frack, the banty Cochin Roos, "Little bastids" ( exactly pronounced as spelled") but other than that.... Not really. Even when Daughter2 was on the other side of the fence for three rainy days and she wouldn't let me catch her - when she so obviously wanted to come home, pacing the fence -
I didn't talk smack to her.

Perhaps I suffer from selective memory issues. I do shake my finger at some, I have been known to "peck" with a forefinger at a pushy pullet or roo on occasion, and I do carry around this or that obnoxious-for-the-moment cockerel. I've pushed Louie the drake to the ground and held him there until he gave up being a poop, a couple of times. But that's about it. The rest of the time I talk nice to 'em all.

I am more verbally "abusive" to my two dogs, because THEY know better when they act up.

 

[PepsNick]

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[CluckyJay]

When they escaped their container and pooped everywhere in the bedroom a few days ago, I was a bit more than "smart" with them.

Clippy, clippy!

 

[theoldchick]

While adding rocks to the base of my pen I caught myself clucking to the three teenage JG's who were still very worried about being out in the 'real world'. As I worked on the outside of their pen, I could see them watching me and peeping back at me. Feeling sorry for them I went inside and sat down to socialize with them. I plucked grass with my fingers and flicked dirt about as if I found a delicious morsel. I clucked and peeped and made excited boc boc noises, and they responded by pulling at the grass and flicking the dirt about. They discovered the scratch feed I had tossed earlier and started grazing around me. I was having a good ole time clucking and peeping with my peeps.

A few feet away my horse was watching me from his pasture. Nose to the ground, ears forward, his brown eyes glittered with curiosity. He nickered softly when I made eye contact with him. Thankful only the horse caught me talking 'chicken' to my chickens, I returned to arranging my rocks.

I guess I don't verbally abuse my chickens. But mine haven't done anything to set me off......

 

[stoutfamily]

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Sound like fun! I have found myself peeping to my chicks too but I don't think anyones caught me yet....

 

[cbrown86]

Oh boy! I totally do that. I'm not even gonna lie. When my chicks try to run from me, I start cussing at em. My brother threatens to eat them. It's so funny. My husband told Socks she was grounded tonight for getting out of the tub. Really? How do you ground a chicken...? Taken away it's ability to poop and eat?